Saturday, 25 February 2012

HOW COMPANIES LEARN YOUR SECRETS

Here’s an interesting
article from the New York Times on the intensive research and data mining
companies conduct on their customers in order to learn about them and to
predict their future needs. It also describes some of the psychological
techniques used in marketing in order to modify behavior and to create new
habits. As it was stated in the Mind Control Theories and
Techniques used by Mass Media, marketing does not
simply seek to sell a product, it taps into psychological reflexes and
instincts to create needs and to modify habits. Powerful stuff.

HOW COMPANIES LEARN YOUR SECRETS

Andrew Pole had just
started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from
the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we
wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to
know, can you do that? ”

Pole has a master’s
degree in statistics and another in economics, and has been obsessed with the
intersection of data and human behavior most of his life. His parents were
teachers in North Dakota, and while other kids were going to 4-H, Pole was
doing algebra and writing computer programs. “The stereotype of a math nerd is
true,” he told me when I spoke with him last year. “I kind of like going out
and evangelizing analytics.”

As the marketers
explained to Pole ~ and as Pole later explained to me, back when we were still
speaking and before Target told him to stop ~ new parents are a retailer’s holy
grail.

Most shoppers don’t buy
everything they need at one store. Instead, they buy groceries at the grocery
store and toys at the toy store, and they visit Target only when they need
certain items they associate with Target ~ cleaning supplies, say, or new socks
or a six-month supply of toilet paper. But Target sells everything from milk to
stuffed animals to lawn furniture to electronics, so one of the company’s
primary goals is convincing customers that the only store they need is Target.

But it’s a tough message
to get across, even with the most ingenious ad campaigns, because once
consumers’ shopping habits are ingrained, it’s incredibly difficult to change
them.

There are, however, some
brief periods in a person’s life when old routines fall apart and buying habits
are suddenly in flux. One of those moments ~ the moment, really ~ is right
around the birth of a child, when parents are exhausted and overwhelmed and
their shopping patterns and brand loyalties are up for grabs. But as Target’s
marketers explained to Pole, timing is everything.

Because birth records are
usually public, the moment a couple have a new baby, they are almost instantaneously
barraged with offers and incentives and advertisements from all sorts of
companies. Which means that the key is to reach them earlier, before any other
retailers know a baby is on the way. Specifically, the marketers said they
wanted to send specially designed ads to women in their second trimester, which
is when most expectant mothers begin buying all sorts of new things, like
prenatal vitamins and maternity clothing. “Can you give us a list?” the
marketers asked.

“We knew that if we could
identify them in their second trimester, there’s a good chance we could capture
them for years,” Pole told me. “As soon as we get them buying diapers from us,
they’re going to start buying everything else too. If you’re rushing through
the store, looking for bottles, and you pass orange juice, you’ll grab a
carton. Oh, and there’s that new DVD I want. Soon, you’ll be buying cereal and
paper towels from us, and keep coming back.”

The desire to collect
information on customers is not new for Target or any other large retailer, of
course. For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person
who regularly walks into one of its stores. Whenever possible, Target assigns
each shopper a unique code ~ known internally as the Guest ID number ~ that
keeps tabs on everything they buy. “If you use a credit card or a coupon, or
fill out a survey, or mail in a refund, or call the customer help line, or open
an e-mail we’ve sent you or visit our Web site, we’ll record it and link it to
your Guest ID,” Pole said. “We want to know everything we can.”

Also linked to your Guest
ID is demographic information like your age, whether you are married and have
kids, which part of town you live in, how long it takes you to drive to the
store, your estimated salary, whether you’ve moved recently, what credit cards
you carry in your wallet and what Web sites you visit.

Target can buy data about
your ethnicity, job history, the magazines you read, if you’ve ever declared
bankruptcy or got divorced, the year you bought (or lost) your house, where you
went to college, what kinds of topics you talk about online, whether you prefer
certain brands of coffee, paper towels, cereal or applesauce, your political
leanings, reading habits, charitable giving and the number of cars you own.

In a statement, Target
declined to identify what demographic information it collects or purchases. All
that information is meaningless, however, without someone to analyze and make
sense of it. That’s where Andrew Pole and the dozens of other members of Target’s
Guest Marketing Analytics department come in.

Almost every major
retailer, from grocery chains to investment banks to the U.S. Postal Service,
has a “predictive analytics” department devoted to understanding not just
consumers’ shopping habits but also their personal habits, so as to more
efficiently market to them.

“But Target has always
been one of the smartest at this,” says Eric Siegel, a consultant and the
chairman of a conference called Predictive Analytics World. “We’re living
through a golden age of behavioral research. It’s amazing how much we can
figure out about how people think now.”

The reason Target can
snoop on our shopping habits is that, over the past two decades, the science of
habit formation has become a major field of research in neurology and
psychology departments at hundreds of major medical centers and universities,
as well as inside extremely well financed corporate labs.

“It’s like an arms race
to hire statisticians nowadays,” said Andreas Weigend, the former chief
scientist at Amazon.com. “Mathematicians are suddenly sexy.”

As the ability to analyze
data has grown more and more fine-grained, the push to understand how daily
habits influence our decisions has become one of the most exciting topics in
clinical research, even though most of us are hardly aware those patterns
exist. One study from Duke University estimated that habits, rather than
conscious decision-making, shape 45 percent of the choices we make every day,
and recent discoveries have begun to change everything from the way we think
about dieting to how doctors conceive treatments for anxiety, depression and
addictions.

This research is also
transforming our understanding of how habits function across organizations and
societies. A football coach named Tony Dungy propelled one of the worst teams
in the N.F.L. to the Super Bowl by focusing on how his players habitually
reacted to on-field cues.

Before he became Treasury
secretary, Paul O’Neill overhauled a stumbling conglomerate, Alcoa, and turned
it into a top performer in the Dow Jones by relentlessly attacking one habit ~
a specific approach to worker safety ~ which in turn caused a companywide
transformation.

The Obama campaign has
hired a habit specialist as its “chief scientist” to figure out how to trigger
new voting patterns among different constituencies.

Researchers have figured
out how to stop people from habitually overeating and biting their nails.

They can explain why some
of us automatically go for a jog every morning and are more productive at work,
while others oversleep and procrastinate. There is a calculus, it turns out,
for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive
rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and
algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how
precisely they can sell.

Inside the
brain-and-cognitive-sciences department of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology are what, to the casual observer, look like dollhouse versions of
surgical theaters. There are rooms with tiny scalpels, small drills and
miniature saws. Even the operating tables are petite, as if prepared for
7-year-old surgeons. Inside those shrunken O.R.’s, neurologists cut into the
skulls of anesthetized rats, implanting tiny sensors that record the smallest
changes in the activity of their brains.

An M.I.T. neuroscientist
named Ann Graybiel told me that she and her colleagues began exploring habits
more than a decade ago by putting their wired rats into a T-shaped maze with
chocolate at one end. The maze was structured so that each animal was
positioned behind a barrier that opened after a loud click. The first time a
rat was placed in the maze, it would usually wander slowly up and down the
center aisle after the barrier slid away, sniffing in corners and scratching at
walls. It appeared to smell the chocolate but couldn’t figure out how to find
it. There was no discernible pattern in the rat’s meanderings and no indication
it was working hard to find the treat.

The probes in the rats’
heads, however, told a different story. While each animal wandered through the
maze, its brain was working furiously. Every time a rat sniffed the air or
scratched a wall, the neurosensors inside the animal’s head exploded with
activity. As the scientists repeated the experiment, again and again, the rats
eventually stopped sniffing corners and making wrong turns and began to zip
through the maze with more and more speed.

And within their brains,
something unexpected occurred: as each rat learned how to complete the maze
more quickly, its mental activity decreased. As the path became more and more
automatic ~ as it became a habit ~ the rats started thinking less and less.

This process, in which
the brain converts a sequence of actions into an automatic routine, is called
“chunking.” There are dozens, if not hundreds, of behavioral chunks we rely on
every day. Some are simple: you automatically put toothpaste on your toothbrush
before sticking it in your mouth. Some, like making the kids’ lunch, are a
little more complex. Still others are so complicated that it’s remarkable to
realize that a habit could have emerged at all.

Take backing your car out
of the driveway. When you first learned to drive, that act required a major
dose of concentration, and for good reason: it involves peering into the
rearview and side mirrors and checking for obstacles, putting your foot on the
brake, moving the gearshift into reverse, removing your foot from the brake,
estimating the distance between the garage and the street while keeping the
wheels aligned, calculating how images in the mirrors translate into actual
distances, all while applying differing amounts of pressure to the gas pedal
and brake.

Now, you perform that
series of actions every time you pull into the street without thinking very
much. Your brain has chunked large parts of it. Left to its own devices, the
brain will try to make almost any repeated behavior into a habit, because
habits allow our minds to conserve effort. But conserving mental energy is
tricky, because if our brains power down at the wrong moment, we might fail to
notice something important, like a child riding her bike down the sidewalk or a
speeding car coming down the street.

So we’ve devised a clever
system to determine when to let a habit take over. It’s something that happens
whenever a chunk of behavior starts or ends ~ and it helps to explain why
habits are so difficult to change once they’re formed, despite our best
intentions.

To understand this a
little more clearly, consider again the chocolate-seeking rats. What Graybiel
and her colleagues found was that, as the ability to navigate the maze became
habitual, there were two spikes in the rats’ brain activity ~ once at the
beginning of the maze, when the rat heard the click right before the barrier
slid away, and once at the end, when the rat found the chocolate.

Those spikes show when
the rats’ brains were fully engaged, and the dip in neural activity between the
spikes showed when the habit took over. From behind the partition, the rat wasn’t
sure what waited on the other side, until it heard the click, which it had come
to associate with the maze.

Once it heard that sound,
it knew to use the “maze habit,” and its brain activity decreased. Then at the
end of the routine, when the reward appeared, the brain shook itself awake
again and the chocolate signaled to the rat that this particular habit was
worth remembering, and the neurological pathway was carved that much deeper.

The process within our
brains that creates habits is a three-step loop.

First, there is a cue, a
trigger that tells your brain to go into automatic mode and which habit to use.

Then there is the
routine, which can be physical or mental or emotional.

Finally, there is a
reward, which helps your brain figure out if this particular loop is worth
remembering for the future.

Over time, this loop ~
cue, routine, reward; cue, routine, reward ~ becomes more and more automatic.
The cue and reward become neurologically intertwined until a sense of craving
emerges.

What’s unique about cues
and rewards, however, is how subtle they can be. Neurological studies like the
ones in Graybiel’s lab have revealed that some cues span just milliseconds. And
rewards can range from the obvious (like the sugar rush that a morning doughnut
habit provides) to the infinitesimal (like the barely noticeable ~ but
measurable ~ sense of relief the brain experiences after successfully
navigating the driveway).

Most cues and rewards, in
fact, happen so quickly and are so slight that we are hardly aware of them at
all. But our neural systems notice and use them to build automatic behaviors.

Habits aren’t destiny ~
they can be ignored, changed or replaced. But it’s also true that once the loop
is established and a habit emerges, your brain stops fully participating in
decision-making. So unless you deliberately fight a habit ~ unless you find new
cues and rewards ~ the old pattern will unfold automatically.

“We’ve done experiments
where we trained rats to run down a maze until it was a habit, and then we
extinguished the habit by changing the placement of the reward,” Graybiel told
me. “Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place and put in the rat
and, by golly, the old habit will re-emerge right away. Habits never really
disappear.”

Luckily, simply understanding
how habits work makes them easier to control. Take, for instance, a series of
studies conducted a few years ago at Columbia University and the University of
Alberta.

Researchers wanted to
understand how exercise habits emerge. In one project, 256 members of a
health-insurance plan were invited to classes stressing the importance of
exercise. Half the participants received an extra lesson on the theories of
habit formation (the structure of the habit loop) and were asked to identify
cues and rewards that might help them develop exercise routines.

The results were
dramatic. Over the next four months, those participants who deliberately
identified cues and rewards spent twice as much time exercising as their peers.
Other studies have yielded similar results.

According to another
recent paper, if you want to start running in the morning, it’s essential that
you choose a simple cue (like always putting on your sneakers before breakfast
or leaving your running clothes next to your bed) and a clear reward (like a
midday treat or even the sense of accomplishment that comes from ritually
recording your miles in a log book). After a while, your brain will start
anticipating that reward ~ craving the treat or the feeling of accomplishment ~
and there will be a measurable neurological impulse to lace up your jogging
shoes each morning.

Our relationship to
e-mail operates on the same principle. When a computer chimes or a smartphone
vibrates with a new message, the brain starts anticipating the neurological
“pleasure” (even if we don’t recognize it as such) that clicking on the e-mail
and reading it provides. That expectation, if unsatisfied, can build until you
find yourself moved to distraction by the thought of an e-mail sitting there
unread ~ even if you know, rationally, it’s most likely not important. On the
other hand, once you remove the cue by disabling the buzzing of your phone or
the chiming of your computer, the craving is never triggered, and you’ll find,
over time, that you’re able to work productively for long stretches without
checking your in-box.

Some of the most
ambitious habit experiments have been conducted by corporate America. To
understand why executives are so entranced by this science, consider how one of
the world’s largest companies, Procter & Gamble, used habit insights to
turn a failing product into one of its biggest sellers. P.& G. is the
corporate behemoth behind a whole range of products, from Downy fabric softener
to Bounty paper towels to Duracell batteries and dozens of other household
brands.

In the mid-1990s, P.&
G.’s executives began a secret project to create a new product that could
eradicate bad smells. P.& G. spent millions developing a colorless,
cheap-to-manufacture liquid that could be sprayed on a smoky blouse, stinky couch,
old jacket or stained car interior and make it odorless. In order to market the
product ~ Febreze ~ the company formed a team that included a former Wall
Street mathematician named Drake Stimson and habit specialists, whose job was
to make sure the television commercials, which they tested in Phoenix, Salt
Lake City and Boise, Idaho, accentuated the product’s cues and rewards just
right.

The first ad showed a
woman complaining about the smoking section of a restaurant. Whenever she eats
there, she says, her jacket smells like smoke. A friend tells her that if she
uses Febreze, it will eliminate the odor. The cue in the ad is clear: the harsh
smell of cigarette smoke. The reward: odor eliminated from clothes.

The second ad featured a
woman worrying about her dog, Sophie, who always sits on the couch. “Sophie
will always smell like Sophie,” she says, but with Febreze, “now my furniture
doesn’t have to.” The ads were put in heavy rotation. Then the marketers sat
back, anticipating how they would spend their bonuses. A week passed. Then two.
A month. Two months. Sales started small and got smaller. Febreze was a dud.

The panicked marketing
team canvassed consumers and conducted in-depth interviews to figure out what
was going wrong, Stimson recalled. Their first inkling came when they visited a
woman’s home outside Phoenix. The house was clean and organized. She was
something of a neat freak, the woman explained. But when P.& G.’s
scientists walked into her living room, where her nine cats spent most of their
time, the scent was so overpowering that one of them gagged.

According to Stimson, who
led the Febreze team, a researcher asked the woman, “What do you do about the
cat smell?”

“It’s usually not a
problem,” she said.

“Do you smell it now?”

“No,” she said. “Isn’t it
wonderful? They hardly smell at all!”

A similar scene played
out in dozens of other smelly homes. The reason Febreze wasn’t selling, the
marketers realized, was that people couldn’t detect most of the bad smells in
their lives. If you live with nine cats, you become desensitized to their
scents. If you smoke cigarettes, eventually you don’t smell smoke anymore. Even
the strongest odors fade with constant exposure. That’s why Febreze was a
failure.

The product’s cue ~ the
bad smells that were supposed to trigger daily use ~ was hidden from the people
who needed it the most. And Febreze’s reward (an odorless home) was meaningless
to someone who couldn’t smell offensive scents in the first place.

P.& G. employed a
Harvard Business School professor to analyze Febreze’s ad campaigns. They
collected hours of footage of people cleaning their homes and watched tape
after tape, looking for clues that might help them connect Febreze to people’s
daily habits. When that didn’t reveal anything, they went into the field and
conducted more interviews.

A breakthrough came when
they visited a woman in a suburb near Scottsdale, Ariz., who was in her 40s
with four children. Her house was clean, though not compulsively tidy, and
didn’t appear to have any odor problems; there were no pets or smokers. To the
surprise of everyone, she loved Febreze.

“I use it every day,” she
said.

“What smells are you
trying to get rid of?” a researcher asked.

“I don’t really use it
for specific smells,” the woman said. “I use it for normal cleaning ~ a couple
of sprays when I’m done in a room.”

The researchers followed
her around as she tidied the house. In the bedroom, she made her bed, tightened
the sheet’s corners, and then sprayed the comforter with Febreze. In the living
room, she vacuumed, picked up the children’s shoes, straightened the coffee
table, and then sprayed Febreze on the freshly cleaned carpet.

“It’s nice, you know?”
she said. “Spraying feels like a little mini-celebration when I’m done with a
room.” At the rate she was going, the team estimated, she would empty a bottle
of Febreze every two weeks.

When they got back to
P.& G.’s headquarters, the researchers watched their videotapes again. Now
they knew what to look for and saw their mistake in scene after scene. Cleaning
has its own habit loops that already exist. In one video, when a woman walked
into a dirty room (cue), she started sweeping and picking up toys (routine),
then she examined the room and smiled when she was done (reward). In another, a
woman scowled at her unmade bed (cue), proceeded to straighten the blankets and
comforter (routine) and then sighed as she ran her hands over the freshly
plumped pillows (reward).

P.& G. had been
trying to create a whole new habit with Febreze, but what they really needed to
do was piggyback on habit loops that were already in place. The marketers
needed to position Febreze as something that came at the end of the cleaning
ritual, the reward, rather than as a whole new cleaning routine.

The company printed new
ads showing open windows and gusts of fresh air. More perfume was added to the
Febreze formula, so that instead of merely neutralizing odors, the spray had
its own distinct scent. Television commercials were filmed of women, having
finished their cleaning routine, using Febreze to spritz freshly made beds and
just-laundered clothing. Each ad was designed to appeal to the habit loop: when
you see a freshly cleaned room (cue), pull out Febreze (routine) and enjoy a
smell that says you’ve done a great job (reward). When you finish making a bed
(cue), spritz Febreze (routine) and breathe a sweet, contented sigh (reward).
Febreze, the ads implied, was a pleasant treat, not a reminder that your home
stinks.

And so Febreze, a product
originally conceived as a revolutionary way to destroy odors, became an air
freshener used once things are already clean. The Febreze revamp occurred in
the summer of 1998. Within two months, sales doubled. A year later, the product
brought in $230 million. Since then Febreze has spawned dozens of spinoffs ~
air fresheners, candles and laundry detergents – that now account for sales of
more than $1 billion a year. Eventually, P.& G. began mentioning to
customers that, in addition to smelling sweet, Febreze can actually kill bad
odors. Today it’s one of the top-selling products in the world.

Andrew Pole was hired by
Target to use the same kinds of insights into consumers’ habits to expand
Target’s sales. His assignment was to analyze all the cue-routine-reward loops
among shoppers and help the company figure out how to exploit them. Much of his
department’s work was straightforward: find the customers who have children and
send them catalogs that feature toys before Christmas. Look for shoppers who
habitually purchase swimsuits in April and send them coupons for sunscreen in
July and diet books in December.

But Pole’s most important
assignment was to identify those unique moments in consumers’ lives when their
shopping habits become particularly flexible and the right advertisement or
coupon would cause them to begin spending in new ways.

In the 1980s, a team of
researchers led by a U.C.L.A. professor named Alan Andreasen undertook a study
of peoples’ most mundane purchases, like soap, toothpaste, trash bags and
toilet paper. They learned that most shoppers paid almost no attention to how
they bought these products; that the purchases occurred habitually, without any
complex decision-making. Which meant it was hard for marketers, despite their
displays and coupons and product promotions, to persuade shoppers to change.

But when some customers
were going through a major life event, like graduating from college or getting
a new job or moving to a new town, their shopping habits became flexible in
ways that were both predictable and potential gold mines for retailers.

The study found that when
someone marries, he or she is more likely to start buying a new type of coffee.

When a couple moves into
a new house, they’re more apt to purchase a different kind of cereal.

When they divorce,
there’s an increased chance they’ll start buying different brands of beer.

Consumers going through
major life events often don’t notice, or care, that their shopping habits have
shifted, but retailers notice, and they care quite a bit. At those unique
moments, Andreasen wrote, customers are “vulnerable to intervention by
marketers.”

In other words, a
precisely timed advertisement, sent to a recent divorcee or new homebuyer, can
change someone’s shopping patterns for years.

And among life events,
none are more important than the arrival of a baby. At that moment, new
parents’ habits are more flexible than at almost any other time in their adult
lives. If companies can identify pregnant shoppers, they can earn millions.

The only problem is that
identifying pregnant customers is harder than it sounds. Target has a
baby-shower registry, and Pole started there, observing how shopping habits
changed as a woman approached her due date, which women on the registry had
willingly disclosed. He ran test after test, analyzing the data, and before
long some useful patterns emerged. Lotions, for example. Lots of people buy
lotion, but one of Pole’s colleagues noticed that women on the baby registry
were buying larger quantities of unscented lotion around the beginning of their
second trimester.

Another analyst noted
that sometime in the first 20 weeks, pregnant women loaded up on supplements
like calcium, magnesium and zinc. Many shoppers purchase soap and cotton balls,
but when someone suddenly starts buying lots of scent-free soap and extra-big bags
of cotton balls, in addition to hand sanitizers and washcloths, it signals they
could be getting close to their delivery date.

As Pole’s computers
crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when
analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a “pregnancy prediction”
score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small
window, so Target could send coupons timed to very specific stages of her
pregnancy.

One Target employee I
spoke to provided a hypothetical example.

Take a fictional Target
shopper named Jenny Ward, who is 23, lives in Atlanta and in March bought
cocoa-butter lotion, a purse large enough to double as a diaper bag, zinc and
magnesium supplements and a bright blue rug. There’s, say, an 87 percent chance
that she’s pregnant and that her delivery date is sometime in late August.
What’s more, because of the data attached to her Guest ID number, Target knows
how to trigger Jenny’s habits. They know that if she receives a coupon via e-mail,
it will most likely cue her to buy online. They know that if she receives an ad
in the mail on Friday, she frequently uses it on a weekend trip to the store.
And they know that if they reward her with a printed receipt that entitles her
to a free cup of Starbucks coffee, she’ll use it when she comes back again.

In the past, that
knowledge had limited value. After all, Jenny purchased only cleaning supplies
at Target, and there were only so many psychological buttons the company could
push. But now that she is pregnant, everything is up for grabs. In addition to
triggering Jenny’s habits to buy more cleaning products, they can also start
including offers for an array of products, some more obvious than others, that
a woman at her stage of pregnancy might need.

Pole applied his program
to every regular female shopper in Target’s national database and soon had a
list of tens of thousands of women who were most likely pregnant. If they could
entice those women or their husbands to visit Target and buy baby-related
products, the company’s cue-routine-reward calculators could kick in and start
pushing them to buy groceries, bathing suits, toys and clothing, as well. When
Pole shared his list with the marketers, he said, they were ecstatic. Soon,

Pole was getting invited
to meetings above his paygrade. Eventually his paygrade went up.

At which point someone
asked an important question:

How are women going to
react when they figure out how much Target knows?

“If we send someone a
catalog and say, ‘Congratulations on your first child!’ and they’ve never told
us they’re pregnant, that’s going to make some people uncomfortable,” Pole told
me. “We are very conservative about compliance with all privacy laws. But even
if you’re following the law, you can do things where people get queasy.”

About a year after Pole
created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man walked into a Target outside Minneapolisand demanded to see the manager. He was clutching coupons that had
been sent to his daughter, and he was angry, according to an employee who
participated in the conversation.

“My daughter got this in
the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons
for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?”

The manager didn’t have any
idea what the man was talking about. He looked at the mailer. Sure enough, it
was addressed to the man’s daughter and contained advertisements for maternity
clothing, nursery furniture and pictures of smiling infants. The manager
apologized and then called a few days later to apologize again.

On the phone, though, the
father was somewhat abashed. “I had a talk with my daughter,” he said. “It
turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely
aware of. She’s due in August. I owe you an apology.”

When I approached Target
to discuss Pole’s work, its representatives declined to speak with me. “Our
mission is to make Target the preferred shopping destination for our guests by
delivering outstanding value, continuous innovation and exceptional guest
experience,” the company wrote in a statement.

“We’ve developed a number
of research tools that allow us to gain insights into trends and preferences
within different demographic segments of our guest population.”

When I sent Target a
complete summary of my reporting, the reply was terser:

“Almost all of your
statements contain inaccurate information and publishing them would be
misleading to the public. We do not intend to address each statement point by
point.” The company declined to identify what was inaccurate. They did add,
however, that Target “is in compliance with all federal and state laws,
including those related to protected health information.”

When I offered to fly to
Target’s headquarters to discuss its concerns, a spokeswoman e-mailed that no
one would meet me. When I flew out anyway, I was told I was on a list of
prohibited visitors. “I’ve been instructed not to give you access and to ask
you to leave,” said a very nice security guard named Alex.

Using data to predict a
woman’s pregnancy, Target realized soon after Pole perfected his model, could
be a public-relations disaster. So the question became: how could they get
their advertisements into expectant mothers’ hands without making it appear
they were spying on them?

How do you take advantage
of someone’s habits without letting them know you’re studying their lives?

Before I met Andrew Pole,
before I even decided to write a book about the science of habit formation, I
had another goal: I wanted to lose weight.

I had got into a bad
habit of going to the cafeteria every afternoon and eating a chocolate-chip
cookie, which contributed to my gaining a few pounds. Eight, to be precise. I
put a Post-it note on my computer reading “NO MORE COOKIES.” But every
afternoon, I managed to ignore that note, wander to the cafeteria, buy a cookie
and eat it while chatting with colleagues. Tomorrow, I always promised myself,
I’ll muster the willpower to resist.

Tomorrow, I ate another
cookie.

When I started
interviewing experts in habit formation, I concluded each interview by asking
what I should do. The first step, they said, was to figure out my habit loop.
The routine was simple: every afternoon, I walked to the cafeteria, bought a
cookie and ate it while chatting with friends.

Next came some less
obvious questions: What was the cue? Hunger? Boredom? Low blood sugar? And what
was the reward? The taste of the cookie itself? The temporary distraction from
my work? The chance to socialize with colleagues?

Rewards are powerful
because they satisfy cravings, but we’re often not conscious of the urges
driving our habits in the first place. So one day, when I felt a cookie
impulse, I went outside and took a walk instead. The next day, I went to the
cafeteria and bought a coffee.

The next, I bought an apple and ate it while
chatting with friends. You get the idea. I wanted to test different theories
regarding what reward I was really craving. Was it hunger? (In which case the
apple should have worked.) Was it the desire for a quick burst of energy? (If
so, the coffee should suffice.) Or, as turned out to be the answer, was it that
after several hours spent focused on work, I wanted to socialize, to make sure
I was up to speed on office gossip, and the cookie was just a convenient
excuse?

When I walked to a
colleague’s desk and chatted for a few minutes, it turned out, my cookie urge
was gone.

All that was left was
identifying the cue.

Deciphering cues is hard,
however. Our lives often contain too much information to figure out what is
triggering a particular behavior. Do you eat breakfast at a certain time
because you’re hungry? Or because the morning news is on? Or because your kids
have started eating?

Experiments have shown that most cues fit into one of five
categories: location, time, emotional state, other people or the immediately
preceding action. So to figure out the cue for my cookie habit, I wrote down
five things the moment the urge hit:

Where are you? (Sitting
at my desk.)

What time is it? (3:36
p.m.)

What’s your emotional
state? (Bored.)

Who else is around? (No
one.)

What action preceded the
urge? (Answered an e-mail.)

The next day I did the
same thing. And the next. Pretty soon, the cue was clear: I always felt an urge
to snack around 3:30.

Once I figured out all
the parts of the loop, it seemed fairly easy to change my habit. But the
psychologists and neuroscientists warned me that, for my new behavior to stick,
I needed to abide by the same principle that guided Procter & Gamble in
selling Febreze: To shift the routine ~ to socialize, rather than eat a cookie ~
I needed to piggyback on an existing habit.

So now, every day around
3:30, I stand up, look around the newsroom for someone to talk to, spend 10
minutes gossiping, then go back to my desk. The cue and reward have stayed the
same. Only the routine has shifted. It doesn’t feel like a decision, any more
than the M.I.T. rats made a decision to run through the maze. It’s now a habit.
I’ve lost 21 pounds since then (12 of them from changing my cookie ritual).

After Andrew Pole built
his pregnancy-prediction model, after he identified thousands of female
shoppers who were most likely pregnant, after someone pointed out that some of
those women might be a little upset if they received an advertisement making it
obvious Target was studying their reproductive status, everyone decided to slow
things down.

The marketing department
conducted a few tests by choosing a small, random sample of women from Pole’s
list and mailing them combinations of advertisements to see how they reacted.

“We have the capacity to
send every customer an ad booklet, specifically designed for them, that says,
‘Here’s everything you bought last week and a coupon for it,’ ” one Target
executive told me. “We do that for grocery products all the time.” But for
pregnant women, Target’s goal was selling them baby items they didn’t even know
they needed yet.

“With the pregnancy
products, though, we learned that some women react badly,” the executive said.
“Then we started mixing in all these ads for things we knew pregnant women
would never buy, so the baby ads looked random. We’d put an ad for a lawn mower
next to diapers. We’d put a coupon for wineglasses next to infant clothes. That
way, it looked like all the products were chosen by chance.

“And we found out that as
long as a pregnant woman thinks she hasn’t been spied on, she’ll use the
coupons. She just assumes that everyone else on her block got the same mailer
for diapers and cribs. As long as we don’t spook her, it works.”

In other words, if Target
piggybacked on existing habits ~ the same cues and rewards they already knew
got customers to buy cleaning supplies or socks ~ then they could insert a new
routine: buying baby products, as well.

There’s a cue (“Oh, a
coupon for something I need!”) a routine (“Buy! Buy! Buy!”) and a reward (“I
can take that off my list”).

And once the shopper is
inside the store, Target will hit her with cues and rewards to entice her to
purchase everything she normally buys somewhere else. As long as Target
camouflaged how much it knew, as long as the habit felt familiar, the new
behavior took hold.

Soon after the new ad
campaign began, Target’s Mom and Baby sales exploded. The company doesn’t break
out figures for specific divisions, but between 2002 ~ when Pole was hired ~
and 2010, Target’s revenues grew from $44 billion to $67 billion. In 2005, the
company’s president, Gregg Steinhafel, boasted to a room of investors about the
company’s “heightened focus on items and categories that appeal to specific
guest segments such as mom and baby.”

Pole was promoted. He has
been invited to speak at conferences. “I never expected this would become such
a big deal,” he told me the last time we spoke.

A few weeks before this
article went to press, I flew to Minneapolis to try and speak to Andrew Pole
one last time. I hadn’t talked to him in more than a year. Back when we were
still friendly, I mentioned that my wife was seven months pregnant. We shop at
Target, I told him, and had given the company our address so we could start receiving
coupons in the mail. As my wife’s pregnancy progressed, I noticed a subtle
upswing in the number of advertisements for diapers and baby clothes arriving
at our house.

Pole didn’t answer my
e-mails or phone calls when I visited Minneapolis. I drove to his large home in
a nice suburb, but no one answered the door. On my way back to the hotel, I
stopped at a Target to pick up some deodorant, and then also bought some
T-shirts and a fancy hair gel. On a whim, I threw in some pacifiers, to see how
the computers would react. Besides, our baby is now 9 months old. You can’t
have too many pacifiers.

When I paid, I didn’t
receive any sudden deals on diapers or formula, to my slight disappointment.

It made sense, though: I
was shopping in a city I never previously visited, at 9:45 p.m. on a weeknight,
buying a random assortment of items. I was using a corporate credit card, and
besides the pacifiers, hadn’t purchased any of the things that a parent needs.
It was clear to Target’s computers that I was on a business trip. Pole’s
prediction calculator took one look at me, ran the numbers and decided to bide
its time. Back home, the offers would eventually come. As Pole told me the last
time we spoke:

“Just wait. We’ll be
sending you coupons for things you want before you even know you want them.” ~ Source: New York Times

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QUOTES BY JEWS

In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the communistic, or Bolshevik, no; but freedom,freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallized, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world. ~ Edgar Cayce, 1944, No. 3976-29

**********These pro-Israel people like pledges: they tried to force me to sign a pledge of loyalty to Israel. When I refused, it was trench warfare, hand to hand combat every day I was in the Congress, and the U.S. people never knew that I was fighting to remain independent for them. To make real peace and to find real justice. Here, they have the whole of the U.S. government making pledges to them!!! Unbelievable. ~ Cynthia McKinney, PhD**********

“The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart’s blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe ~ whether we are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists ~ we follow the Talmud. It is our common law.” ~ Herman Wouk

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“Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black colored people and those who resemble them in their climates. Their nature is like the mute animals. Their level among existing things is below that of a man and above that of a monkey.” ~ Maimonides

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“All of the anxious sighing, longing and hoping of their hearts is directed to the time when some day they would like to deal with us heathen as they dealt with the heathen in Persia at the time of Esther”. ~ Martin Luther

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WORDS AND WARNINGS OF WICKEDNESS

"If [Jews] are as wise as they claim to be, they will labour to make Jews American, instead of labouring to make America Jewish. The genius of the United States of America is Christian in the broadest sense, and its destiny is to remain Christian. This carries no sectarian meaning with it, but relates to a basic principle which differs from other principles in that it provides for liberty with morality, and pledges society to a code of relations based on fundamental Christian conceptions of human rights and duties." ~ Henry Ford

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“It doesn’t even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organization for their international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks.” ~ Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 11

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The real God of the Universe does not have “Chosen” in the first place because he is perfect as we understand and predilection is a human weakness. The Jews invented the OT to fool humanity as always. The real God of the Universe does not send any body to kill, destroy his own creation, to rape, to maim, to create misery and havoc on other people. Don’t you get it? the God in the OT is a monster, is another one of the many Gods in the dessert, those sacrifices offered to God are Satanic as their name and the Jews keep offering sacrifices to their God. Last year they immolated thousands of human beings in Gaza to their God Baal, Moloch, Azazel, Satan, Lucifer. ~Isaas, TUT

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"I had been asked to sign a pledge for Israel when I first became a candidate for Congress and after refusing to do so my congressional career became trench warfare, hand to hand combat just to remain in the congress.

Ever since my refusal to sign that pledge for Israel the pro-Israel lobby let me know that my political net was in the hangman's noose it was the pro-Israel lobby they decided to tighten that noose." ~ Cynthia McKinney

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"Himself a Jew, Marx has around him, in London and France, but especially in Germany, a multitude of more or less clever, scheming, agile, speculating Jews ~ such as Jews are everywhere: commercial or banking agents, writers, politicians, reporters for newspapers of all shades, with one foot in the bank and the other in the socialist movement, and with their arses sitted upon the German daily press ~ they have taken possession of all the newspapers ~ and you can imagine what kind of sickening literature they produce. Now, this entire Jewish world, which glut a single profiteering sect, a nation of blooksuckers, a single gluttonous parasite closely and intimately interlinked not only across national borders, but across all differences of political opinion ~ this Jewish world today stands for the most part at the disposal of Marx and, at the same time, at the disposal of Rothschild.

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This may seem strange. What can there be in common between Communism and the largest banks? Ho-ho! The Communism of Marx seeks an enormous centralization of the state, and where such exists, there must inevitably be a central state bank, and where such a bank exists, the parasitic Jewish nation, which profiteers from the labour of others, will always find a way to prevail. In reality, for the proletariat, this would be a barrack regime, under which the working men and the working women, converted into a uniform mass, would rise, fall asleep, work, and live at the beat of the drum." ~ Bakunin (1814-1876)

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“We entered the synagogue, which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. When we got about halfway up, the head rabbi, who was dressed in a fur hat similar to that worn by Henry VIII of England and in a surplice heavily embroidered and very filthy, came down and met the General (Eisenhower)...The smell was so terrible that I almost fainted and actually about three hours later lost my lunch as the result remembering it." ~ General Patton in Germany, diary entry Sept 17, 1945**********

The U.S. Congress officially recognized the Noahide Laws in legislation that was passed by both houses. Congress and the President of the U. S., George Bush, indicated in Public Law 102-14, 102nd Congress, that the United States of America was founded upon the Seven Universal Laws of Noah, and that these Laws have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization. They also acknowledged that the Seven Laws of Noah are the foundation upon which civilization stands and that recent weakening of these principles threaten the fabric of civilized society, and that justified preoccupation in educating the Citizens of the U.S. of America and future generations is needed. For this purpose, this Public Law designated March 26, 1991 as Education Day.”**********

Marxism, to which all branches of Socialism necessarily adhere, was originated by Jew Karl Marx, himself of rabbinical descent and has been dominated by them from the beginning. Marx did not actually originate anything; he merely “streamlined” Talmudism for Gentile consumption.” ~ Elizabeth Dilling

**********Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.” ~ Fr. John Sheehan, S.J.

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The cruel canard ‘anti-Semitic’ does not apply for many reasons, not the least of which is the simple fact that the slanderous word itself is derived from language games for purposes of propaganda and in real world context has no validity. ~ Tom Valentine

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker.

Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.

Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot'

than the stigma of conformity.

And on issues that seem important to you,

Stand up and be counted at any cost.

~ Thomas J Watson (1874-1956)

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'There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.' ~ John Swinton, former Chief of Staff, The New York Times, 1953

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WHAT TALMUDICS THINK

Historically, Jews had always thrived in nations and empires with multicultural, pluralistic and tolerant environments, while they fared badly in strong ethnic or nationalistic societies. European Jews have always been the emblematic stranger or ‘other’. Therefore, by definition, a society where the stranger is welcome is good for the Jews, although they have not always appreciated this link. The future of European Jewry is dependent on our ability to shape a multicultural, pluralistic and diverse society. ~ Göran Rosenberg, Jewish author and journalist

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American Jews are committed to cultural tolerance because of their belief ~ one firmly rooted in history ~ that Jews are safe only in a society acceptant of a wide range of attitudes and behaviors, as well as a diversity of religious and ethnic groups. It is this belief, for example, not approval of homosexuality, that leads an overwhelming majority of U.S. Jews to endorse ‘gay rights’ and to take a liberal stance on most other so-called ‘social’ issues. ~ Charles Silberman, Jewish writer and journalist

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The Jew … Judaizes … he provokes religious indifference, but he also imposes on those whose faith he destroys, his own concept of the world, of morality, and of human life. The Jews detests the spirit of the nation in the midst of which they live. ~ Bernard Lazare

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We will legally define the Talmud as the basis of the Israeli legal system. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu

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"Anti-Communism is Antisemitism." ~ Jewish Voice, July ~ August 1941.

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We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we need a world of our own. ~ Maurice Samuels, You Gentiles. 1942.

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According to the Talmud...."...When the serpent came unto Eve, he infused filthy lust in her (but) when Israel stood on Sinai, that lust was eliminated" ~ Talmud, Abodah Zarah 22b

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As monstrous as it may seem, we are engaged in close combat between Israel and the Nations ~ and it can only be genocidal and total because it is about our and their identities. ~ Yitzhak Attia, Israel Magazine, April 2003

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"Some may call it Communism, but I call it what it is: Judaism." ~ Rabbi Stephen Weiss.

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It was hard for Satan alone to mislead the whole world, so he appointed prominent rabbis in different localities. ~ A Chasidic saying attributed to Nahman of Bratzlav, early 19th century

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It is our duty to force all mankind to accept the seven Noahide laws, and if not ~ they will be killed." ~ Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg

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"The Jews are called human beings, but the non-Jews are not humans. They are beasts." ~ Talmud: Baba mezia, 114b**********

"The Akum (non-Jew) is like a dog. Yes, the scripture teaches to honor the the dog more than the non-Jew." ~ Ereget Raschi Erod. 22 30**********

"Even though God created the non-Jew they are still animals in human form. It is not becoming for a Jew to be served by an animal. Therefore he will be served by animals in human form." ~ Midrasch Talpioth, p. 255, Warsaw 1855**********

"The souls of non-Jews come from impure sprits and are called pigs." ~ Jalkut Rubeni gadol 12b**********

"Although the non-Jew has the same body structure as the Jew, they compare with the Jew like a monkey to a human." ~ Schene luchoth haberith, p. 250 b**********

"If you eat with a Gentile, it is the same as eating with a dog." ~ Tosapoth, Jebamoth 94b**********

"If a Jew has a non-Jewish servant or maid who dies, one should not express sympathy to the Jew. You should tell the Jew: "God will replace 'your loss', just as if one of his oxen or asses had died." ~ Jore dea 377, 1

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"Sexual intercourse between Gentiles is like intercourse between animals." ~ Talmud Sanhedrin 74b

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"It is permitted to take the body and the life of a Gentile." ~ Sepher ikkarim III c 25**********

"It is the law to kill anyone who denies the Torah. The Christians belong to the denying ones of the Torah." ~ Coschen hamischpat 425 Hagah 425. 5**********

"Every Jew, who spills the blood of the godless (non-Jews), is doing the same as making a sacrifice to God." ~ Talmud: Bammidber raba c 21 & Jalkut 772

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Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity. The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists. ~ Noel Ignatiev, Harvard Magazine, Sep-Oct 2002

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We intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed, not ‘deconstructed’ but destroyed.

Even if reason tells us, even shouts with all its force the very absurdity of this confrontation between the small and insignificant people of Israel [i.e., all Jewry worldwide, not just “the State of Israel”] and the rest of humanity… as absurd, as incoherent and as monstrous as it may seem, we are engaged in close combat between Israel and the Nations ~ and it can only be genocidal and total because it is about our and their identities. ~ Yitzhak Attia, Israel Magazine, April 2003

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Any trial based on the assumption that Jews and goyim are equal is a total travesty of justice. ~ Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, June 6, 1989:

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REVENGE OF THE JEWISH RABBIS OF SPAIN In 1492 CE, Chemor, chief Rabbi of Spain, wrote to the Grand Sanhedrin, which had its seat in Constantinople, for advice, when a Spanish law threatened expulsion (after the fall of Muslim rule in spain).

This was the reply:

” Beloved brethren in Moses, we have received your letter in which you tell us of the anxieties and misfortunes which you are enduring. We are pierced by as great pain to hear it as yourselves. The advice of the Grand Satraps and Rabbis is the following:

1. As for what you say that the King of Spain obliges you to become Christians: do it, since you cannot do otherwise. 2. As for what you say about the command to despoil you of your property: make your sons merchants that they may despoil, little by little, the Christians of theirs. 3. As for what you say about making attempts on your lives: make your sons doctors and apothecaries, that they may take away Christians’ lives. 4. As for what you say of their destroying your synagogues: make your sons canons and clerics in order that they may destroy their churches. [Emphasis mine] 5. As for the many other vexations you complain of: arrange that your sons become advocates and lawyers, and see that they always mix in affairs of State, that by putting Christians under your yoke you may dominate the world and be avenged on them. 6. Do not swerve from this order that we give you, because you will find by experience that, humiliated as you are, you will reach the actuality of power.

(Signed) PRINCE OF THE JEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE.” ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---- The reply is found in the sixteenth century Spanish book, La Silva Curiosa, by Julio-Iniguez de Medrano (Paris, Orry, 1608), on pages 156 and 157, with the following explanation: “This letter following was found in the archives of Toledo by the Hermit of Salamanca, (while) searching the ancient records of the kingdoms of Spain; and, as it is expressive and remarkable, I wish to write it here.” ~ vide, photostat facing page 80. ~ The above was quoted from Waters Flowing Eastward by Paquita de Shishmareff, pp. 73-74

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“[1] When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and occupy, and he clears away many nations before you ~ the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations mightier and more numerous than you ~ [2] and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy” (Deut 7:1-2).

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"Compassion towards the wicked is really wickedness. It is along these lines that Rabbi Levi opened his speech in honor of Purim: (Talmud, Megillah, 11a): "If you do not uproot the inhabitants of the Land, and allow them to remain - they will become thorns in your sides, and will cause trouble for you in the Land in which you dwell." (Bamidbar 33:55) The mitzvah, then of wiping out Amalek [Palestinians], actually stems from the value of compassion and kindness - compassion on all those whom Amalek threatens to exterminate. This mitzvah is an ongoing one, and valid even today. Today, too, there are those ~ driven by a deep-seeded anti-Semitism - who desperately wish to kill us. These are the people whom the Torah commanded us to obliterate, to leave no memory of them." ~ Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed

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Nachman Abramovic demonized Palestinian children stating: “They may look young to you, but these people are terrorists at heart. Don’t look at their deceptively innocent faces, try to think of the demons inside each of them. I am absolutely certain these people would grow to be evil terrorists if we allowed them to grow. Would you allow them to grow to kill your children or finish them off right now? Honest and moral people ought to differentiate between true humans and human animals. We do kill human animals and we do so unapologetically. Besides, who in the West is in a position to lecture us on killing human animals. After all, whose hands are clean?”

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"Wars are the Jews’ harvest, for with them we wipe out the Christians and get control of their gold. We have already killed 100 million of them, and the end is not yet." ~ Chief Rabbi in France, in 1859, Rabbi Reichorn

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"The Communist soul is the soul of Judaism. Hence it follows that, just as in the Russian revolution the triumph of Communism was the triumph of Judaism, so also in the triumph of fascism will triumph Judaism." ~ Rabbi Harry Waton, A Program for the Jews and Humanity, p. 143-144

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If a Jew is tempted to do evil he should go to a city where he is not known and do the evil there. ~ Moed Kattan 17a

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The Jewish people as a whole will become its own Messiah. It will attain world domination by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this New World Order, the “children of Israel” will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled in which it is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands. ~ Baruch Levy in a letter to Karl Marx.

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"My opinion of Christian Zionists? They're scum, but don't tell them that. We need all the useful idiots we can get right now." ~ Bibi Netanyahu

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It was hard for Satan alone to mislead the whole world, so he appointed prominent rabbis in different localities. ~ A Chasidic saying attributed to Nahman of Bratzlav, early 19th century

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Gentiles exist only to serve Jews as slaves. Goyim were only born to serve us. Without that they have no place in the world. Only to serve the people of Israel. Why are gentiles needed? They are only here to work. They will work, they will plow. They will reap. We will sit like effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created,” Rabbi Yosef, Sha Party, Jerusalem Post, 2011

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"An example of the use of the Jewish code words Esau and Jacob is found in a sermon preached by Rabbi Leon Spitz during the Purim observances in 1946 (quoted here from the American Hebrew of March 1, 1946) : "Let Esau whine and wail and protest to the civilized world, and let Jacob raise his hand to fight the good fight. The anti-Semite . . . understands but one language, and he must be dealt with on his own level. The Purim Jews stood up for their lives. American Jews, too. must come to grips with our contemporary anti-Semites. We must fill our jails with anti-Semitic gangsters. We must fill our insane asylums with anti-Semitic lunatics. We must combat every alien. Jew-hater. We must Harass and prosecute our Jew-baiters to the extreme limits of the laws. We must humble and shame our anti-Semitic hoodlums to such an extent that none will wish or dare to become (their) 'fellow-travelers'.

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This is what Trotsky, a Jew, was preparing for the Russians for the implementation of Communism, which Marx based on the Babylonian Talmud for Gentiles:

"We should turn Her (Russia) into a desert populated with white Niggers. We will impose upon them such a tyranny that was never dreamt by the most hideous despots of the East. The peculiar trait of that tyranny is that it will be enacted from the left rather than the right and it will be red rather than white in color.

Its color will be red literally because we would spill such torrents of blood that they will pale all human losses of the capitalist wars and make the survivors shudder.

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Remember my children, that all the earth must belong to us Jews, and that the gentiles, being mere excrements of animals, must possess nothing. ~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild on his deathbed, 1812

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The largest overseas banks will cooperate with us most closely. If we win the Revolution and squash Russia, on the funeral pyres of its remains we will strengthen the power of Zionism and become a power the whole world would drop in the face of on its knees. We will show the world what real power means.

By way of terror and blood baths we will bring the Russian intelligentsia into a state of total stupor, to idiocy, to the animal state of being. So far our young men dressed in leather ~ the sons of watch repair men from Odessa and Orsha, Gomel and Vinnitza ~ oh, how beautifully, how brilliantly do they master hatred of everything Russian! With what a great delight do they physically destroy the Russian intelligentsia ~ officers, engineers, teachers, priests, generals, agronomists, academicians, writers!" ~ Secret Forces in History of Russia. U.K. Begunov 1995, p 148

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One of the finest things ever done by the mob was the Crucifixion of Christ. Intellectually it was a splendid gesture. But trust the mob to bungle the job. If I’d had charge of executing Christ, I’d have handled it differently. You see, what I’d have done was had him shipped to Rome and fed him to the lions. They could never have made a saviour out of mincemeat!”~ Rabbi Ben Hecht

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The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks.”~ Al Goldstein (publisher of Screw Magazine).

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"The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews ~ all of them in all different levels ~ is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle." ~ Rabbi Kook, the Elder, father of the messianic tendency of Jewish fundamentalism, said

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"You have not begun to appreciate the depth of our guilt. We are intruders. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and played havoc with them. We have been at the bottom of not merely the latest Great War, but of every other major revolution in your history.

We have brought discord and confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. We are still doing it. No one can tell how long we shall go on doing it. Who knows what great and glorious destiny might have been yours if we had left you alone." ~ Marclis Eli Ravage, Century Magazine February, 1926.

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"The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N." ~ Harold Wallace Rosenthal, Zionist, The Hidden Tyranny

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Very soon, every American will be required to register their biological property (that’s you and your children) in a national system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a charge back for our fiat paper currency.

Every American will be forced to register or suffer being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattels (property) and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading (Birth Certificate) to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, secured by their pledges.

They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two should figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability.

After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debts to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor to this fraud, which we will call “Social Insurance.”

Without realizing it, every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and we will employ the high office (presidency) of our dummy corporation (USA) to foment this plot against America.” ~ American traitor, the Jew Edward Mandell House giving a very detailed outline of the New World Order plans that were to be implemented gradually over time to enslave the American people ... A PLAN THAT HAS BEEN REPEATED IN CANADA, AUSTRALIA, BRITAIN AND ELSEWHERE.

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"You throw a little Jewish on top of that, you got trouble. You got a bunch of wild, crazy energy.

"Sorry that doesn't sound hippie. Sorry that doesn't sound like communal jubilant fun. Sorry I'm not a Pepper. Sorry I didn't pop out of a soda-pop ad, and life is just one big fucking cabaret, because a lot of what propelled Van Halen, what compels me and propels me is precisely this element. It's fury. If you approach me with anti-Semetic preconceptions, I'm not here to re-educate. I come from a whole different school of thought. If you don't get it on the first try, fuck you.

"Every step I took on that stage was smashing some Jew-hating, lousy punk ever deeper into the deck. Every step. I jumped higher 'cause I knew there was going to be more impact when I hit those boards. And if you were even vaguely anti-Semetic, you were under my wheels, motherfucker. That's where the lyrics came from, that's where the body language came from, that's where the humor came from, and where the fuck you came from. All equally as important. You want to know the ingredients? Don't ask if you don't want to know.

"What you get from repression and what you get from hatred is fury, and fury was one of the main trigger points for the great Van Halen. What you see now is a bunch of buffoons waddling around at the family barbecue, and their wives admonishing the children saying, "Don't worry, Daddy's just had a few too many Coors Lights and he's imitating what he used to do for a living when he played music, honey."

"What's missing is the testosterone. What's missing is the fury. What's missing is the passionate convicted commitment. And I got a lot of mine from my religious background. So y'all best stop imagining the way Dr. Zorba looked, or some defenseless Hasidic Jew with a little yarmulke on his head, 'cause that ain't here for you." ~ David Lee Roth

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Rabbi Isaac Wise, in The Israelite of America writes, “Masonry is a Jewish institution whose history, degrees, charges, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end

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“We infiltrated the Roman Catholic Church right from the very beginning. Why do you think the Pope, the Cardinals and all the Bishops wear yarlmulkahs? (skullcaps) The white race never figures this out. A thousand years later the white race began to wake up ... we had to come up with a plan B ... so we formed the Jesuits. There was a nice boy, Ignatius Loyola. He started the Jesuits.” (Loyola was Jewish. Research/read the Jesuit Extreme Oath) Regarding the Jesuits, quoting Rabbi Finkelstein

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Does worship of the Talmud pervade Judaism globally? Herman Wouk, Orthodox Jew and famed author of The Cain Mutiny, affirms, “The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart’s blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs, ceremonies we observe ~ whether we are Orthodox, Reform,Conservative, or merely spasmodic sentimentalists ~ we follow the Talmud. It is our common law.”

**********From Jews Must Liveby Samuel Roth, pg. 22. “The organ is diseased. This disease is a sort of moral gonorrhea known as Judaism, which, alas, seems to be incurable. If you have any doubts, look at any Jew ridden country in Europe. If you need to be further convinced, take a look at what is happening in the United States.”

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“Every synagogue we Jews build in a Christian country is a finger of scorn we point at our hosts; a sore finger we stick into their eyes, like the leering of a senile old woman who does all sorts of foul mischief before you, and feels safe in the knowledge that you will not lay hands on her for fear of contamination.” ibid., pg.

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Sen. Al Franken: One of the widely disseminated stories was that no Jews died in the collapse of the Trade Towers because they had received calls telling them not to go to work that day.

To tell you the truth, I got the Jew call. I had an office in the Trade Center where I used to do most of my writing. The call came from former New York mayor Ed Koch. “Al,” he told me, “don’t go to work on the twenty-third day of Elul [September 11, 2001.].”

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Tell me, do the evil men of this world have a bad time? They hunt and catch whatever they feel like eating. They don’t suffer from indigestion and are not punished by Heaven. I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear us…Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear our madness instead of admiring our nobility. Let them tremble, let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a wild country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go crazy, that we might go wild and burn all the oil fields in the Middle East, or that we might start World War Three just like that. ~ Ariel Sharon

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